World Flavors Cookbook

Empanadas de Verdura

Name: Empanadas de Verdura
Cook time: 25 min
Cuisine: Argentina
Ingredients: For dough: 400g flour, 150g lard or butter, 1 tsp salt, 100ml warm water; For filling: 500g chard, blanched and chopped; 2 onions, sauteed; 2 hard-boiled eggs, chopped; 50g raisins; salt and pepper

Vegetarian empanadas filled with chard, onion, hard-boiled egg, and raisins — the Friday Lenten empanada of Catholic Argentina.

Cuisine: Argentina

Ingredients

For dough: 400g flour, 150g lard or butter, 1 tsp salt, 100ml warm water
For filling: 500g chard, blanched and chopped; 2 onions, sauteed; 2 hard-boiled eggs, chopped; 50g raisins; salt and pepper

Instructions

Make dough. Rest 30 minutes.
Mix filling ingredients. Season.
Roll dough thin. Cut circles.
Fill each with a spoonful of filling. Fold and repulgate (fold and twist the edge).
Bake at 200C for 20-25 minutes until golden.